The Crabs club is a successful business, generating revenue thru club, camps and tournaments. FCA is a charity, they pay coaches next to nothing (most time is donated) and they bring in college talent for the summer to coach for a small stipend. Both formats are working and will continue to work. The track record of these clubs putting boys into the right colleges is unparalleled in the Baltimore area...go a little south and Annapolis Hawks are a top program. The kids will play where they are coached and developed to move on to a Div 1 program (or D3 if the right fit). I am sure BK donates more $ to the FCA program then many make in a year. Good family, club has right values...only knock is the club does feed many young men into Calvert Hall (but McDonogh has boarding and other schools have fallen behind in the recruiting aspect).
FCA bait/switch kids every year, promising them spots on the AA teams at tryouts, then switching them at the last minute once they have basically turned down offers for other teams to the A teams, which are kept around to fund the lavish AA team trips. Next, and once they establish their AA rosters at the HS level, they pick up kids all through the year, over-filling the rosters, and families find out late in the year that instead of their son playing in 3-4 Summer events, all of a sudden they are only invited to 2, or 1 in some cases where they can get away with it. Lastly, the director's relatives and select friends are consistently allowed to play on multiple teams at multiple brackets, taking away legitimate spots for other players that are either not invited, or pushed down to the A teams. There is plenty of lacrosse to go around, and the players that do this are usually very good, so it is just ridiculous and selfish. Other than that, they are very holy and special.
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